The United States has dozens of ongoing national emergencies. President Obama declared 13 national emergencies and President Clinton 17; it’s churlish and unfair not to let President Trump declare one too.
President Trump should declare some kind of national emergency shortage in his administration and find some more emergency-worthy issues. The Congress could find some itself and ask the President to recognize them officially as national emergencies.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/presidents-national-emergencies/
An obvious candidate is the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere being more than 500. Another is the lack of surplus drinking and irrigation water in the southwest.
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